I don’t know if people still remember I said something like I’ll talk about the hating issue in the next post and my next post never really existed. I found out I didn’t have the time on Monday to write another post since I had to do a History assignment (which apparently the teacher didn’t bother to collect so I did it for nothing).
Here goes… Haters will hate. And I do understand why. But what I don’t and never will understand is the way they show their hate. Because that really don’t/rarely happen or occur to me and my friends.
I wanted to write about an issue on one of the kpop groups but as I wrote I realise it was hard for me to link to this haters hate thing. So maybe I will not write about that afterall…
So, this thing about haters is that, I used to be one. I used to be a hater of kpop. Don’t bash me, cause I am not the usual haters you see on youtube/allkpop/other kpop sites that go around spreading negative comments about other artistes. Because I hated kpop as a whole. I don’t know why. Maybe because I was so sad about mandopop being dominated by the raising trend of kpop, that my sadness turned into anger towards kpop. And my stand was, all kpop artistes are not talented, they only have looks. Once again, don’t bash me… BECAUSE I HAVE MY REASONS…
One may be because of a friend… I am not saying I blame this friend because the final decision was in me to hate on kpop. My friend talked about kpop artistes like they got NOTHING good at all. Absolutely nothing… Because she has her strong stand that kpop was really nothing. And so because of that, my impression about kpop was, BAD BAD BAD… And later, I see more and more juniors/friends loving kpop and less people liking mandopop, which made my impression of kpop become worse. Eventually, I started hating on kpop. And, talking about me hating kpop, I talk about this hate only to my friend (the friend who influenced me) and no one else.
And two (if you recall, I said reasons…) is that because of the mindset I have that kpop artistes are only LOOKS… I didn’t bother watching/listening/reading about kpop, I knew almost nothing about it. Except that the taiwan variety show that I liked did have many kpop special feature, like dance competition using kpop songs etc… And that was when I knew about Ring Ding Dong and Lucifer. (Even though they did have cuts of SHINee MV when they introduce the songs, I paid no attention cause I only like my taiwan artistes…) And, though I say I hated kpop, I liked Kdramas… I watched Princess Hours and Boys Over Flowers (as I’ve said, I did find who the singers of Stand By Me was, but paid no attention) then, since they were broadcasted on TV.
And so, I hated kpop. But now looking back, I guess that wasn’t hate, that was just the stubborn me not accepting this whole kpop thing. And if you were to compare me and the “haters” out there… Those are visible haters that actually HAVE PLENTY OF KNOWLEDGE about kpop and hate kpop and make negative comments on kpop. Which was totally opposite of me who had little idea about kpop and I only talk about it to my friend, not openly on youtube/kpop related sites. I mean it is so unreasonable to me that people go and find out about kpop, read it/watch it/listen to it and then hate on it. You get what I mean? If someone don’t like one thing, shouldn’t it make more sense that the person wants to have absolutely no connection to it? Like me to kpop then… That brings me back to my point, I don’t understand those actions of the haters, by that I mean the spreading/badmouthing about kpop. If you really really need an example, recently, SNSD’s “new” but old song Dancing Queen came out and at first many made comments about how it was actually Mercy… And I was like, PLEASE… ANYONE WILL KNOW IT IS MERCY, unless the person didn’t know anything about English songs. And IT WAS NO COPY, because SMTOWN WILL NOT TAKE THAT RISK to copy. And anyone who have any knowledge about the entertainment industry, there are remix/remake of songs everywhere. Like Japanese song to Chinese song/ Korean song to Chinese song/ whatsoever. SO IT WAS REALLY COMMON. And the truth was SM did buy the copyright of the song. And it was filmed in 2008. And there are people going around doubting it, or saying that it sounds bad/not as good as the original. And this made me rather mad. Firstly, I was so sure it was in 2008 after I saw a comment suggesting this because of the hairstyle. And then, it is a good song. And if you don’t like it, just simple don’t watch it. You don’t need to replay the song to find where it sounds not so great and pick on it, right? I hope I am making sense, and I don’t want to talk about it anymore…
Also, I have this urge to slap people every time people talk bad about couple shippers. I will consider myself as a total khuntoria and goguma shipper. And I do like jongkey, 2min, onbom, and SHINee5 (I wish you get what I mean, cause I don’t want to write OT5, since that will mean a shipping). First let me talk about WGM. Every couple have their fanbase/shippers. And as a fan, I do wish that the onscreen couples will be together offscreen. But inside of me, I do know it is impossible. But still I have this wish, and I hope that my wish is truth. And then there is another group of people who are fans of the individual idols (and their group) and are not in favour of the couple thing. And then the fight between this 2 groups go on and on and on. Fans don’t consider shippers as fans (that was the obvious conclusion I got from seeing many youtube video of goguma talking about seohyun going to blue night concert) And then the fight starts. And I came across one comment that goes like this: Love Light is a special song to gogumas so it should be fine to make comments on this song/vid in favour of this couple. I agree with that. Love Light and Banmal Song, at least, should be an area for gogumas to make their comments etc. And for fans, they can choose to ignore or accept, but not make a big fuss that we shouldn’t be talking about goguma on a cnblue video. And since I bring this up… To be honest, it was goguma couple that made me fans of both SNSD and CNBLUE. Okay, to start with, I was a SMTOWN love, so SNSD was included, but my love for them wasn’t as much. And also, after WGM, I started to listen to more CNBLUE songs. And especially with their newest comeback… I really love the interactions they had lately. (I watched their WGM during DEC2012) That, I call myself a fan, not a SONE nor a BOICE, but just a fan of the two groups. I listen to their songs, watch their variety shows, but that’s about it. I don’t put them as my wallpaper or check every update about them etc. And yet, those who call themselves their fan don’t welcome the couple shippers into the family. And this is what I call a sad case, because my belief is that kpop is a family itself.
I guess I’ve got enough talking about haters, so now on to the lovers love part. Before that, I must say how did I turn from a hater to a lover. Because of class reshuffling, I wasn’t that close with the friend who influenced me. Then that was the period my mum was into a miotv channel ONE(onetvasia) which actually shows alot of SBS drama/variety. And my mum was so into watching kpop star then, so I watched with her sometimes. Also, running man was on that channel, and I started watching it. Then, I heard from some friends about hello baby, and that the show is really cute. Which is how the journey to SHINee really started. I kind of mixed up the order, but I believe I watched hello baby before SHINee’s Sherlock comeback. And that became the first kpop song I love/listen/dance. And I tracked my youtube channel, it says I suscribed to SMTOWN only around May2012. And that was after me liking plenty of SHINee’s Sherlock performances and I actually watched Yunhanam (that was after hello baby) already. And that’s when I started following SHINee, and loving kpop. So, there, here I am now, a SHINee and kpop lover. I believe that lovers will always love and that kpop is a big family. Real lovers will not hate, and family definitely will not hate one another. Which is why I never ever openly make a negative comment about others. And I will defend my idols if people say bad things about them. Though I rarely do that online, that actually happens more between me and my friend(not the one who influenced me). She do like SHINee, but of course we have different bias. Other than that she’s probably a TVXQ supporter and 2pm supporter? And apparently we fit each other really well because she likes Yunho and I like Changmin… But that’s not the point. She have her dislikes towards female idols, and she don’t like girls who act like guys etc. Maybe by now you probably know who I’m always defending… But well… I always tell her, NO SHE ISN’T WHAT YOU THINK etc… But that won’t stop her disliking, neither will it stop me from liking. And we are like any other friends who do get angry at each other or fight, but at the end of the day, we are still friends. We respect each other’s liking and preferences, though we try to convince each other about our own points of view, but we know we can’t force so we know where to stop at. She don’t go around youtube videos and comment that so so so is so ugly/ I don’t like so so so. I know it’s a free and open place for everyone to post comments, but if you don’t like it, why are you here in the first place? I always have this question to haters… Which kind of never have been answered because I don’t communicate with those haters…
And as I’ve said, lovers will always love, because we focus much on the love part rather than put our effort to hate on others. And this is what I call the kpop family.
Ohmy, such a messy post, my thoughts are everywhere, hopefully people don’t bash me. ^^